Update and push for 2.8.0

[olibye]

I think I did this once long ago, but I've forgotten the details.
Anybody any ideas/improvements.

Anybody interested in moving to a Github wiki?

[custommonkey]

Is it worth converting these into markdown so they can be edit in github.

It seems pretty straight forward to use pandoc to convert them.

e.g. custommonkey@50db15f